A reader's journal sharing the insights of various authors and my take on a variety of topics, most often philosophy, religion & spirituality, politics, history, economics, and works of literature. Come to think of it, diet and health, too!

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Favorites 4/20: The Human Condition

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
(1956). This isn’t the firstArendt I read, I think that designation goes to Between
Past and Future, which I have an image of reading in Cedar Falls the
first year we were married. However, The
Human Condition is probably the closest that Arendt came to laying out a
systematic presentation of her very unique way of thinking about politics. Her ideas
both fascinate and frustrate me, but then that’s what great books should do:
push us to think. I haven’t read any Arendt in a while, but during my
undergraduate and law school days, I had a real intellectual crush on
her!

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I am currently living in Bucharest, Romania with my wife. I offer services as a freelance lawyer to other lawyers in the U.S. and abroad. I also blog @ http://sngabroad.blogspot.com and at http://greenleafadvocacy.com/persuasive-life-blog/